Australia 74 All Out vs Sri Lanka Video Highlights 18-Jan-13

Australia 74 All Out vs Sri Lanka Video Highlights 18-Jan-13.Sri Lanka swung the ball around the Gabba on Friday and dismissed Australia for just 74 runs off 26.4 overs, their lowest one-day international total in 27 years.Nuwan Kulasekara and Malinga Wickets highlights, SL vs AUS Highlights full Australians were 40/9 at one moments but then they manage to cross their lowest total ever in ODIs. Australian team was 74/10, a target that Sri Lankans achieved after losing 6 wickets.Nuwan Kulasekara took wickets for 22 and Lasith Malinga picked up for 14.Australia won the toss and opted to bat on a fine wicket and a warm day in Brisbane, but they fell to a extended inswing onslaught in the third match of a series of which stands level at 1-1.

Australia lowest ODI score of 70 came against England in 1977 at Edgbaston, with the embarrassing scoreline repeated against New Zealand in 1986 at Adelaide.

Ninth man Mitchell Starc ensured they avoided those historic figures with a knock of 22, Australia highest score, when it had looked like no would get in to double figures.

David Warner was first to go, for, after clubbing a catch to Shaminda Eranga at mid-off off Angelo Mathews in the third over.Phillip Hughes had made only when Mahela Jayawardene held a slip catch off Kulasekara who was on fire.

Hussey was given not out to a Kulasekara inswinger caught by keeper Kusal Perera, but Jayawardene won the wicket on appeal. Tv replays showed a clear edge.Skipper Michael Clarke was beginning to look solid, driving for the first boundary while David Hussey did likewise with a glance for, but it was not to last.The Sri Lankan swinger had George Bailey lbw first ball and then beat Clarke, of the best Check batsmen in the world, to hit middle stump.Sri Lanka had the hosts 5-28 and facing their lowest ever ODI score.

Australia 74 All Out vs Sri Lanka Highlights Videos

Australia were 3-21 in the eighth over.New boy Moises Henriques, back in the side after years out, went balls later with the score 6-30.Mitchell Johnson, Matthew Wade and Clint McKay quickly followed them back to the dressing room as slinger Malinga picked up fast wickets.Quick bowler Mitchell Starc showed batting was not impossible and clipped 22 runs off 28 balls before Xavier Doherty offered a simple catch off Eranga to put an finish to the innings.

Sri Lanka’s run chase formed as a straightforward, but they lost six wickets before they reached their target, meaning 16 wickets had been lost in the day for 149 runs. Had Australia held early chances off Tillakaratne Dilshan & Lahiru Thirimanne, they may have won early the momentum to spark a heavier collapse, but in lieu the visitors limped home in the 20th over, with their last recognised batting pair at the crease.

A fearsome spell of inswing bowling from Nuwan Kulasekara was the definitive performance in a strange third ODI at the Gabba, where both captains would have batted first, but 100 may have been a winning total. Kulasekara took a career-best five for 22 as they damned Australia to 74 all out, with the aid of Lasith Malinga, who tore down the tail.Having rested several key players for the first matches, Australia returned to near-full strength at Brisbane, with Michael Clarke, David Warner & Matthew Wade arriving to bolster the batting, but none of them could make it to double figures. In fact, only the last pair of Mitchell Starc & Xavier Doherty did.